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Dear fellow developers,
As I mentioned in my last mail I intend to keep a monthly cadence for my
"Bits from…" emails, so here's what I've been getting up to in May...
Misc
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* Congratulating our new DDs to our family and sending them some swag.
* Responded to a proposal for new member to join as a Parter[1].
* Pre-approval for various travel expenses.
* Responded to hardware donation request.
* Handling a number of administrative details around reimbursements.
* Approved hardware request reimbursement for armhf and arm64 hardware
for the Reproducible Builds sub-project.
* Spoke to GSoC administrators at length regarding a Debian outreach
project.
* More work on a potential DebConf CoC update.
* Updated the preface for the «stretch» edition of Debian
Administrator's Handbook.
* Submitted an entry for SPI's[2] annual report.
* Finally, a large amount of private correspondence regarding a handful
of internal team conflicts, the Dmitry Bogatov situation, and a
separate conversation around a DDs conduct on our mailing lists
[1] https://www.debian.org/partners/
[22] https://www.spi-inc.org
OSCAL 2017
==========
On 13th and 13th May I represented Debian at OSCAL 2017[3] in
Tirana, Albania. I had many highly interesting discussions about using
and promoting Debian, some of them still ongoing.
This event was particulary remarkable in that not only were the
organisers about 10-15 years younger than a typical conference, but also
the gender split of them was around 80:20 female:male.
[3] https://oscal.openlabs.cc/
OCF.tw "Trusted Organisation" process
=====================================
The application process for a "Trusted Organisation" to be setup to
handle DebConf18 financial concerns (etc.) has been officially submitted
to the debian-project list.[4]
[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2017/05/msg00116.html
Policy team
===========
I've been working with a few developers ensuring the Policy Team[5]
is well-staffed. As part of this, Policy 4.0.0.0 was released[6] and
have proposed a "Policy BoF" for DebConf17.
[5] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Policy
[6] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/05/msg00005.html
Upcoming «stretch» release
==========================
In case you have missed it, the tireless Release Team have announced
they plan to release «stretch» on June 17th![7] Do re-read over
their announcement as it contains some important deadlines.
We should celebrate all our effort however; please check the release
party page[8] on the Debian Wiki for an event near you. If there are
none currently arranged for your area, please jump in and arrange one.
[7] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/05/msg00002.html
[8] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyStretch
Reimbursement for BSPs
======================
Don't forget that Debian is willing to reimburse up to USD 100 or
equivalent in your local currency for travel/accommodation
expenses[9]. If there are no BSPs local to you[10], please help organise
one.
Reimbursement requests must meet the following conditions:
* The requester must already be a Debian contributor (and preferably
have demonstrated an ability to contribute to this kind of work).
* The requester should agree to communicate about their activities
during the BSP (for example in a blog post or similar). The goal being
to increase the visibility of such work.
[9] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Reimbursement
[10] https://wiki.debian.org/BSPPlanning
Announcements
=============
In case you have missed them, please check out:
* DebConf17 talk submissions close on June 3rd [11]
[11] https://debconf17.debconf.org/schedule/important-dates/
See you next month!
Regards,
- --
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: :' : Chris Lamb
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